Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1036

Chapter 1036 The Price of Awakening Part 2

"Are you keeping an eye on me?" A pool of tar-like substance had formed below Phloria. Its stench was so terrible that it almost made the girls faint.

"Always. Don’t worry, I’m the only one that can see in there due to my bond with Solus."

"I’m sorry." Friya sighed. "I shouldn’t have taken it out on you. I know that even though you two are no longer together you care for Phloria. It’s just that I feel so helpless and scared that my mouth ran wild."

"There’s no need to apologize. I would feel the same if I didn’t have years to prepare for this moment. Also, I didn’t let Phloria hear your earlier outburst, so we can pretend it never happened." Lith held her hand and Friya finally let the emotions from that horrible day overwhelm her.

She had almost been killed by the Ghouls, met Baba Yaga, been betrayed by the army, half of her guildmates were dead, and now she risked losing one of the most important people of her life.

The events transpired in the last few hours were a burden too great for anyone to bear.

Friya forced Lith to stand up and hugged him as tight as she could, losing herself in his apparently endless strength as she had done during the academy’s second exam.

"Thanks. Kamila is a lucky woman." Friya suddenly felt so weak that she had to sit down. "By the way, does she know about all this and what is your relationship with Solus exactly?"

"Since I don’t know how long will it take to end phase one, I might as well tell you everything. Phloria could use a distraction to endure her pain." Lith said.

"Much appreciated, thanks." Phloria said. Hearing the voices of her sisters, Solus, and Lith helped her to not think too much about the passing of time.

Lith couldn’t tell them about his rebirth so he moved his self-Awakening at four years of age and started from there. He told them how he had used his powers to hunt, to treat Tista’s symptoms, and how he had met Solus and Protector in the same day.

"I still remember that awful sound stinging my poor ears and the obnoxious runt trying to kill me." Protector said with nostalgia. "I’m the one who gave him the name Scourge, you know?"

Lith then told them all that had happened until Solus had assumed her tower form for the first time.

"Wait, so she is the tower?" Phloria was flabbergasted.

"She’s much more than that. Solus is always by my side in her ring form and until a while ago, we shared one mind and one body. I’m not going to lie, a good chunk of my academic success is thanks to her." Lith said.

"We studied everything together." Solus nodded. "Also, I’m not a tower, I’m a hybrid as well. Yet unlike anyone else, I’m a human-artifact hybrid. Without my human half, I would be just another cursed object, like Dawn or the Black Star."

The implications of such words were hard for everyone, but they were much worse for Phloria. She remembered how Lith never took off the stone ring, not even while in his sickbed after saving Protector’s life.

’Just how much has Lith shared with Solus and how big of a role did she play in our relationship, break up included?’ Phloria thought as a searing wave of pain ravaged her body.

Her agony had become so intense that she couldn’t hold back the screams anymore.